reiane s propoorw erecter inan in any other state in Western Europe; a recora ine coanton governmen in the 26 Counties appears determinea to kees.
The latest foray into the wilds of carnone reneauome s ine oanning by the government Censorship and Publications Board of radical women's magazine Spare Rib. The moral guardians of the 26 countes nave complained that four issues of the magazine have qualified it -TOr the appelation indecent and obscene.
Spare Rib told Red Weekly that they thought the reason for the ban mon oe mmeetne assues m awesen carried articles on abortion, masruroanon ana remaie orgasm.
Certainly one article in particular - on now io ger ar aoonion would not go down too well with the guardians of Irish morality, as illegal trie banning of Spare follows the seizure in December of a booklet produced by the Irish Family Planning Asociation entitled "Family Planning', a topic which is again frowned upon by the state authorities. Erica Jong's Fear of Flying is another recent recruit to the long list of banned publications.
ine most recent banning Rib geant Doyie or ine bomo squad who pressed him into omitting the reference to Woolwich in a later report.
The reason for police reluctance to charge O'Connell, Butler and Duggan with the Woolwich bombing currently serving life sentences for the bombing.
and Paddy Armstrong English woman, Carole Richardson, who at their trial in October 1975 protested that their 'confessions' had been beaten them. All four have insisted on their innocence ever since.
Their trial was farcical. English pop group gave evidence that Carole Richardson was with LIel WHeE OleOE attacks took place miles away. The grouo even oroduced a onorowraon including Carole Richardson taken at the dance hall. She was still found guilty of committing murder LHal CYClle STANDARDS The type of frame-up which the Guildford four were victims of is law and order which are applied to -TISE pontica. is that four other people are are not going to They are three Irish - Paul Hill, Gerard Conlon • and an riot is brewing".
Another out of An men have been DOME rubbish'.
BELL only one aspect or tne standards or si counues Is nou prisoners. Once guarosmen t Cartree prison officers. he con tinued, 'is so bad that even we who are in no way concerned with the IRA feel indignation at the way in which the wretches are suttering .... we do not want a riot here, but Hous orrences there are men among us who are serving such heavy sentences and sultation tolerate such keepers. I and give advance warning that a major Hanit up. oi orcanisinc prisoner testified be guilty.
The Times that drugs are used on prisoners. 'It is not unknown for men liable to disciplinary action to be taken to the hospital for a few days and drugged uD. At least two between given injections Syrian which have really destroyed them' Perhaps in another six years that CUTE another British Attorney General will admit to these charges; in the meantime, as with the charges of torture in 1971, the Home Office says the allegations are 'absolute PETER STEWART & GEOFF * THE TRAINING in brutality the British Army is getting in the WILNOUE-TES effects in Britain. Last week two CelOne SerKSnIre
FOUR HUNDRED thousand pounds of tobacco in a Manchester warehouse has given clue to international Rhodesian sanction-busting ring. fell out of the consignment which ostensibly inaland. it lea to invesugations into operations conductea by a company in Geneva Intabex, which markets tobacTradintex. Canadian television came from claims that Intabex sells to the Russians and Bulgarians.
Other revelations of tion-busting week. ine Stalinists' sancine Soviet Zimbabwean people.
main link was another Swiss company called Comaisa SA. So much for the protestations of wholehearted support for the